We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime,… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one… — Rod Taylor Copy Share Image
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing,… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual… — Hyder Akbar Copy Share Image
“You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas,… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
